{"id":20888,"date":"2010-08-22T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=20888"},"modified":"2010-08-22T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T07:30:21","slug":"un-blackberry-androide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/un-blackberry-androide\/","title":{"rendered":"Un Blackberry Androide ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rim-android-blackberry-2010-8\">Via BusinessInsider<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"blackberry android\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4c6ea0ea7f8b9a8a40ac0000\/blackberry-android.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/>RIM&#8217;s new BlackBerry 6 operating system and apps platform still isn&#8217;t in the same league as its arch rivals, Apple&#8217;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android. So it&#8217;s time for RIM to make a difficult, but important move: Stop  wasting time developing its own operating system and apps platform, and  switch the BlackBerry to Android, which is booming with success. The sooner, the better, before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>As Wall Street is starting to figure out, RIM still doesn&#8217;t have a credible answer to the iPhone or Android.  While RIM is still selling plenty of BlackBerry devices &#8212; thanks to  international expansion and big sales at carriers &#8212; it&#8217;s not a software  leader anymore. As a result, RIM is losing the high-end of the smartphone market to Google and Apple, and risks becoming a low-end, low-margin player, or worse.<\/p>\n<p>RIM is the new Palm, in a sense. And don&#8217;t forget what happened to Palm, even after it miraculously created a decent new OS from scratch. (The sad twist of irony is that RIM could have bought Palm and its solid new WebOS platform, before it completely blew the deal.) But a switch to Android could at least give RIM a chance to take back some of the high-end buyers, for several reasons:<\/p>\n<div><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No one who buys BlackBerry products actually cares about the BlackBerry OS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>RIM&#8217;s greatest assets are its email service (on BlackBerry  phones and back-end server setup), BlackBerry Messenger, and the  BlackBerry brand. These could all be moved over to Android, and none of them relies on the BlackBerry OS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>RIM&#8217;s mobile app platform is garbage compared to Apple&#8217;s or even Google&#8217;s. An Android BlackBerry would be able to take advantage of the  fast-growing Android app platform, and RIM wouldn&#8217;t have to waste any  money nurturing it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>RIM still has good relationships with most carriers. So an Android-based BlackBerry could receive top billing from carriers,  versus rival Android devices from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If RIM joined the Android camp, it would be a HUGE boost for  Android, and a big problem for Apple, which would lose even more  platform share to Android. Developers might seriously have to  start thinking about Android first, and Apple&#8217;s iOS second. (There are  still some major problems with Android&#8217;s app market, but those can be  worked out.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For illustration, if RIM were an Android vendor in Q2,  Android would have had 35% of the world&#8217;s smartphone market, per IDC,  versus Apple&#8217;s 14%. Instead, RIM had 18% &#8212; down from last year &#8212; and Android had 17% &#8212; up huge from last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t a BlackBerry Droid sound sexy to you?<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via BusinessInsider RIM&#8217;s new BlackBerry 6 operating system and apps platform still isn&#8217;t in the same league as its arch rivals, Apple&#8217;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android. So it&#8217;s time for RIM to make a difficult, but important move: Stop wasting time developing its own operating system and apps platform, and switch the BlackBerry to Android, &#8230; <a title=\"Un Blackberry Androide ?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/un-blackberry-androide\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su Un Blackberry Androide ?\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[50,443],"class_list":["post-20888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economia","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-blackberry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20889,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions\/20889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}